If I hit the lottery I would quit my job and enjoy myself. After I set up my beach house base, I would research and travel as an volunteer genealogist and visit all the historical places I read about and load up my Kindle brfore I go

A CATTERY!! Lurve to tinyfaery. I want a cattery. I want a giant farm with shady trees and bushes and things for my free-range herd of cats to roam in. Completely walled in, of course, so I never lose a furry one :D

actually it would have to be a great big structure like a sports dome, where you get all the natural sunlight but it’s climate-controlled… no nasty critters for kitties to deal with.

hell yes in a heart beat. i would like to think i would continue working there regardless, but my attitude toward the job would probably become so negative (it would be a total “fuck it” attitude) that i would get fired anyway. i live comfortably on what i make now, about 65K a year, but for me to live a little extra comfortably, like taking nice vacations every year, including lots of weekends away, fancy shopping sprees, etc., i’d say about 100K would do it. to live in the lap of luxury, like buying a summer house, winter house, etc., i’d need at least 250K a year. if i had money to spare it would be nice to take care of my parents (who are not poor by any means but i would throw them a vacation house or something special).

as for what i would do in spare time, i’d travel (british columbia, germany, england, greece, denmark to start), probably volunteer a few places, maybe take some courses at the local college for fun. i like the idea of tiny faery’s to have a cattery. i saw a place in florida (i think) where the guy had this big piece of property and he had all these cats living there, and it was just him in a little house taking care of the cats. i don’t know if i could live a solitary life like that with the cats but i would donate money to places like that.

Um….yes. I would quit my job and then I would start some sort of foundation to serve the population that I currently serve, but without the restrictions and red-tape that is inevitable when you work within a public entity. I would fund a really cool charter school with a target population of ethnic minorities, with awesome internships offered through engineering, medical, and teaching programs.

Yes. Id travel all over the world in a heart beat. Id also like to go scuba dive in the worlds reefs, i think that’d be an amazing experience and then id want to dedicate the rest of my life to learning about them.

I would change employment, but I see retirement as something for people given a few days to live. Working your passion, in something that brings you joy isn’t really working.
I guess that explains why a billionaire like NYC’s Mike Bloomberg ran for Mayor and after winning declined a salary, accepting as remuneration only $1 per year (wonder what he does with that check when it arrives in the mail – sigh? laugh out loud?)

I’m a mom, with no outside job to quit at the moment, but if I became incredibly wealthy, I would change not only my life, but many other’s.
After my family’s basic needs and many “wants” were met, I’d use that money to try and give everyone else a chance at the same. I’d set up several foundations, to try to find ways to:

1) Give a first class education to everyone, no matter where they live, or what the economic makeup of their school district is.
2) Change the nature of politics in our country. Open our two party system to real reform. Blind voting on issues/policies instead of parties/personalities.
3) Give everyone access to the same level of health care that I (being incredibly wealthy) could afford.

I suppose I’d be pretty much like Bill and Melinda Gates, and try use all that money to make the world a better place.

I’d quit where I work now and expand my school schedule. Eventually I’d get my degree and start my life goal. (Starting a program where troubled teenagers and special needs kids help each other. I have a theory on this, I know it sounds weird. Not relavent to this question though.) I’d definitely try to find some good causes for my money, put some in savings for my family, and get out of debt. I would also travel until I die. **sigh** I wish.

I would never quit my job.
I would just work in a more relaxed way. But no way I will renounce to business trips, top class restaurants and resorts, and the adrenaline that actually producing something valuable gives me every day.

But yes, I would say more often to my boss that is a total asshole without worrying about that so much.

Not immediately. It’s a good job and my boss needs me. After a few more years, I’d probably ask to go to part time and go back to school. But that’s kind of the plan anyway so I guess I’d be more comfortable with the money in the bank, but I wouldn’t up and chance my life in huge ways.

No. I love what I do. I would pay off my parents homes, my brothers and sisters homes, set up funds for their kids to go to college, and invest heavily. I would travel a lot with my wife, but I would still want to work. I love giving people beautiful homes.

Surely you jest? If I were to come into that much money my job would change, I would be working for myself. I would be snatching up so much real estate at auction and lien sale you would think I was a shark swimming through a school of seals. What ever I had I would be trying to quadruple it in 3 years at the very least. Increasing it 20 times over would be more the goal. Work for someone else, I would rather have a belt sander taken to the souls of my feet.